If you forget your friend, leave him in trouble, you were born in vain.
It is probably impossible to bring people to their senses except by grief and trouble.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
“You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea because you forget that the good idea has limits.”
— Benjamin Graham
No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Faith in Christ can make even trouble to be welcome, and affliction to be regarded as a gain.”
…and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
—Nikolai Gogol
Please don’t trouble yourself. God didn’t make us to abandon us.
—Michelangelo
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
—Thomas Jefferson
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
—Plato
“Dwell with us, Lord, as a church and people: by thy Holy Spirit reside with us and in us, and never depart from us, and then no root of bitterness shall spring up to trouble us.”
– Charles Spurgeon
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
—Seneca
A person is never closer to God than when he’s in trouble.
—Leo Tolstoy
We have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of pain, freedom from any evil that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us on the intercession of Jesus Christ.
—John Owen
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
—Charlie Chaplin
That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
—Charlie Chaplin
I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there’s a lot of difference.
—Ernest Hemingway
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
—Mark Twain
Intensity of prayer is no criterion of its effectiveness. A man may throw himself on his face and sob out his troubles to the Lord & yet have no intention to obey the commandments of Christ.
—AW Tozer
Truly God is a ‘present help in time of trouble.’
—David Brainerd
It may much conduce to your willingness to die to consider that by death God oftentimes hides His people out of the way of all temptations and troubles upon earth.
—John Flavel
O for a prospect of (our) final deliverance from sin, never to be entangled, defiled, or troubled with it anymore.
—John Flavel
Merely feeling troubled for your sin does not argue for sincerity of repentance.
—John Flavel
To be troubled for grosser sins and have no trouble for ordinary sins daily incurred is an ill sign of a bad heart.
—John Flavel